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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12
Preparation or Mhitcwnsh.

Whitewash is one of the most valuable
articles in the world when properly APP
Piled 1t not only prevents the decay Of
wood, but conduces greatly to the health
fulness OF all buildings, whether of
wood or stone. 0utbuildings and fences.
when not painted, should be supplied
once or twicea year with a good coat of
whitewash, which should be prepared in
the following way: Take clean, water
tight barrel or other suitable cask, and
put into it half bushel of lime. Stake
1t by pouring water over it boiling hot,
and in sufficient quantity to cover it five
inches deep, and stir it briskly till
thoroughly slakcd When the shaking
has been thoroughly effected, dissolve in
water and add two pounds of sulphate
of zinc and one of common salt; these
will cause the wash to harden, and pre-
vent its cracking, which gives an I'M
seemly appearance TO the work
If desirable, a beautiful cream color
may be communicated to the above wash
by adding three pounds of yellow ochre.
or good pearl or lead color by the addi-
ton of lamp, vine or ivory black. For
fawn color, add four pounds of lumber.
Turkish or American (the latter is the
cheapest, one pound of common lamp
black. For common stone color, add
four pounds of raw umber and two
pounds of lamp-black. This wash may
be applied with a common whitewash
brush, and will be found much superior,
both in appearance and durability, to
the common whitewash. - Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12
The omciaI and the RnlI.

There was once very important state
official in California, who thought that
everybody knew him, or ought to know
him. He was one day walking through
a field, when bull addressed him in an
undertone and made for him with its
head down and horns in a position to
raise him. He was a state official, man
of dignity and political power and
natural pomposity, but he ran. lie ran
surprisingly well. He ran even better
than he did for Office, and he got to the
fence first. He clambered over out of
breath and dignity, and found the
owner of the bull calmly contemplating
the operation.
"What do you mean, sirl" asked the
irate official. "What do you mean by
having an infatuated animal like that
roaming over the fieldsl"
''Well, guess the bull has some right
in the field
Fright! Right Do you know who
am, sirl Do you know who amln The
farmer shook his head. Il, sir, l am
Gen.
"why the deuce didn't you tell the
lll''-.San Francisco Chronicle
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12
IIl.Tempered MONKEYS.

The Brazilian Mycetes monkey, or red
bowler, defends itself by means Of its ap-
palling voice, writes Felix Oswald. At
the mere sight of jaguar Mycetes as
sembly will set up general whoop, rails
ing their voices to a deafcning uproar,
till the enemy prefers to retreat. Some
Of the old howlers are then apt to pursue
him for quarter Of a mile, breaking out
into fresh executions whenever they
catch sight Of his speckled hide. 1t takes
hours to calm their excitement and in
moonlight, when every bush seems to
hide a lurking foe, they often make a
night Of it, and keep up far-sounding
roar, renewed at the rustling of every
twig.
The East African baboon often falls a
victim to his passionate temper. If the
Arabs wish TO catch rock baboon with
out bringing on a conflict with a whole
troop Of his fisty relatives, they have only
10 insult the desired specimen by hitting
him with stone. Ten TO one the en-
rsged handler will rush down from
the rocks and charge the offenders on
their own vantage ground, when they
can easily capture him by stunning
blow or by means Of net.
/ have Chacma baboon who flies into
a passion at the slightest provocation.
II she sees anybody eat or drink she
usually stretches out her hand for share.
and if her wish is not instantly gratifed
she grabs the iron bars of her cage and
makes it rock about the floor like ship
in storm. Once she managed to bend
two of those bars out of shape and es-
cape through the gap. But we caught
her again by getting a boy to shake his
fist at her. She had taken refuge in
tree in front Of the house, but in the ex
citement at the offered insult she leaped
upon the roof of the veranda and chased
the culprit from room to room into
gairet, where we succeeded in recaptur-
inc her
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12
Choked By a Black Snake.

Mr.. Karl Kramer, who is now at work
frescoing the interior of Mr.. Joseph
Bryan's residence, after getting through
with his days work went to the brook q
short distance below Mordecai's pond to
fish. While standing on tine bank he no.
ticed a large black snake coiled up on a
log. Mr.. Kramer struck at the snake
with his pole to brighten it off, but the
snake didn't move. He then threw a
rock at it. The snake sprang at him and
fastened its fangs in his trousers. Mr.
Kramer seized the snake just below its
head and jerked it upward. Instantly
the snake coiled its Fbody around Kra-
mer's neck and began Tightening its folds
until Mr.. Kramer was nearly suffocated.
He endeavored to break the hold but
failed. Seeing that unless he was re-
leased from the deadly embrace he would
be killed, Mr.. Kramer, who was growing
weak from the struggle, staggered up to
large rock which was a short distance
of and beat the head of the snake against
it, until it was killed. The snake meas
ured eight feet long and six inches
around the body.-RicEmOad State.
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penelope, " said the young man, as his
frame shook with emotion, in that cosy
cottage, I'm building on Ogden avenue,
where you are TO be the mistress, you
would not object, I'm sure, to my fitting
up a snug little room for the occupancy of
an aged mother, who may come occasion
ally to visit us, and who will be glad to
know that she has not been forgotten in
our happiness"
mo, Cyrus, " impetuously said the fair
young girl, '.your generosity moves me
more deeply than can express. l have
always intended to have ma come and live
with me, but had not thought of fitting
up a room for her. Your noble offer will
afford her great pleasure. She will come
not only occasionally, but will come as
soon as we are married and make ner
home with US always, and"
Then, madam said Cyrvs, in an al
tered tone, permit me to say that start
for Australia tonight. Henceforth our
paths lie apart. You can take the house
and Wen call it square. | have the honor,
madam, to bid you, in the most respectful
manner, ia, ia Chicago Tribune.
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A Wonderful Armies Nan.

Recently there died at POtsdam, New
York, wonderful man, says the Augusta
CAroRicls An accident deprived him Of
shoulder. He earned living by using
his feet and his mouth instead of his
arms. We are told that he owned a
horse, of which he took the entire care,
harnessed it. fastened and unfastened the
buckles with his teeth and drove with
reins tied around his shoulders Being
in need Of a wagon. he bought wheels
and aXlcs and built box buggy complete
and painted it. lie went to the barn one
winter day and built n COW stable, saving
the timber with his feet, and with the
hammer in one foot and holding the nail
with the other, he nailed the boards on
as well as most men could do with their
hands He dug a well twelve feet deep
on a farm in the town and stoned it him
self. He could move away hay by hold
ing the fork under his chin and letting
it rest against his shoulder lie could
pick up potatoes in the field as fast as
man could dig them. He would dress
himself, get his meals, write his letters,
and in fact do almost anything that any
man with two hands could do. Many a
man with all of his physical faculties IN
impaired mourns because he cannot get
along. and vet this armless brother made
himself independent without arms or
hands. lie was like the Crimean hero
who, when his lower limbs were shot
away. wrote to the woman he was en-
gagged to marry releasing her. She an
swered; Il will marry you if you have
enough body remaining to contain your
noble soul. "
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12

Ruby earth is called by the natives
of Burmah "byun," and is generally
found at two different depths. the first
layer at about four feet, and the second
and richer one at twenty to thirty feet
below the surface. 1t is generally ex-
I tracted by a company of miners, ten or
twelve in number. Pits are dug about
eight feet square, lined with rough
timber, and braced with four crosspieces
at intervals. Water enters the pit on
sinking q short distance below the sur
face, and the principal work and source
of expense is keeping the mine free from
water Upright posts are let into the
ground at a short distance from the
mouth, and fork is cut in the upper
end OF each In this fork is balanced a
lever, the longer arm of which hangs
over the pit, while the shorter arm carries
a bucket weighted with stone to counter
balance the contents of the basket, which
is connected with the longer arm by
bamboo which reaches to the bottom of
the pit. This continuance forms a most
efficient though simple means of raising
both water and earth by manual labor.
Generally six or eight of these levers
overhang each pit in actual working, and
probably the proportion Of water buck
cts in constant use to earth baskets is
two to one. Three men at least are be-
low, occupied in filling both baskets and
buckets, they rise and fall necessarily
during the working hours, which rarely
exceed six daily. The ruby earth thus
extracted is placed in heap at the side
OF the pit, and on first exposure, while
wet, sparkles in the sun with myriads of
small stones, brilliant in color, but not
large enough, unfortunately, to be of any
value. When sufficient quantity has
been obtained it is washed in bamboo
trays and handed over to the sorters,
who, after carefully examining it and
taking out any stones of value, pass it on
again to a small colony of women and |
children, who generally surround every |
pit, and who again sort it slowly over in |
the hopes of finding some smaller stones |
that may have been missed by the men.
1t is ludicrous sight to see two or three
little children. WHO perhaps can scarcely
walk, sitting down before heap of this |
washed earth and sorting away with most |
serious faces, as if they realized that their
existence depended upon their exertions. |
No machinery is apparent in the whole
district, though it IS stated that pump |
was brought up a few years ago from
but it soon got choked and
was thrown away as useless, probably be-
cause no one understood how to work it.
Magazine.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12
AT BAY.

This is the end, then, OF striving; that is What
comes OF ii all;
Darkness and foes just behind one, before. an
impossible wall
What does it matter how stanchly one may
have battled for truth.
When with his weapons all broken he sits by
the grave OF his YOUTH
What did it profit in past years that one did
the best that he knew.
When in the gloom Of the present, virtue her
self seems untruel
Why should ono fight any longcr when moth
ing remains but defeat
Surely such labor were useless and idle thu
stirring of feet.
All but the soul that Is faithful knows it IS
good to have fought;
Knows it is good to have acted, whatever the
doing has brought.
This Is the crown Of the conflict, this the TO
ward of all strife
Faith in ones self and ones motives, no mat
ter how darkened the life
Flesh may be bruised and defeated, but spirit
Is never diSgraced:
Spirit is always triumphant, whatever sharp
pain it has faced.
Here, at the end of my conflict, 1 counsel not
yet with despair,
Though TO all seeming my struggles are his
who but beateth the air.
Darkness and foes are about me, yet stand
with my back to the wall,
Facing whatever Fate sends me, and facing
Fate thus shall fall
Oscar Fay adams, in Trart'ers' Record
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Killed by an Orange Seed.

Henry Chatfield, of Brooklyn, died
recently of the effect of the Judgment of
an orange seed in his intestines. He had
been ill for several weeks with infamma-
tion Of the intestines, followed by ulcera-
ton. DR.. Emerson. his physician, called
in DR.. William Gilfillan for consultation,
and they, having decided that an opera
ton was necessary, procured the assist
ance of DR.. F. II. Cotton. The three
doctors made an incision, and after re-
moving a quantity Of pus found the
source of trouble and removed it. The
patient. however, was unable to rally
from the shock, and died about four
O'Clock. DR.. Gilfllan said to Sun re-
porter:
1.-The operation was desperate one,
and was undertaken only as last resort.
There was no possibility of saving the
patient otherwise. The orange seed was
found lodged in the appendix vermi-
formis. This is a small sac attached to
one part of the intestines What pur-
pose it serves is not exactly known. It
is, however, sort of trap, always ready
to catch and hold hard substances pass
ing through the intestines. The lodg-
ment of such substances in it is not in
variably fatal, but the exceptions are
rare. Seeds of oranges. rasins, and SINH
lar fruits are peculiarly liable to be caught
in this way. Is it dangerous to eat
orangesl Wei, l suppose in city Of
this size there is one case a year of death
from such a cause. Very frequently it is
an orange seed, but not always. There
are about 900, 600 people in Brooklyn, all
eating oranges right along, and with one
death year from this cause it would
seem TO be about as dangerougs to eat an
orange as to sit in the house and wait for
a stray pistol ball to kill you. Still, its
just as safe, and good deal nicer, not
to swallow the seeds when you eat
oranges. "
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12
A Singular Circumstance.

''Thc most singular case of deafness
I've ever had anything to do with, - said
the family physician, '.is that of woman
up on Fremont Place She has such a
frightful noise in her head that she can
hear thing except when she's in a
herdic, when the rattle of the vehicle sort
of browns the noise in her head, and she
eau then hear as well as ever. She OBJ
served this popularity of her affection,
and what did she do the other night but
bring home watchman's rattle and a pair
of cymbals. She didn't say anything
until her husband came home and sat
down to dinner. He began to ask the
blessing, and she, wishing to hear his
remarks, began to bang away on the
cymbals He stopped right in the midst
Of his devotions, and asked her wrath
fully if she was crazy, to which she re-
sponded by whOoping 1t little louder,
whereupon he rushed over to my house
and said his wife was raviag lunatic. l
went back with him to try and fix up
matters, but just as soon as | opened my
mouth, she let fly with the watchman's
rattle. The outcome of it is that my
friend gets all his meals down town and
spends his evenings at the City Club,
while his wife, armed with her orchestra,
goes calling on her neighbors, and fools
the children into believing that the circus
has come again n-B4fdJ0 Courier.
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One Mans Luck.

Wall street raised howl of delight
when n. b. Ream sold his Stock Ex
change membership. But while the mat
ter is fresh it ought to 90 on record that
Ream left the street, all in all, tremen-
dously ahead of their game The fact is
that he is a lucky man, has always been
lucky, and probably always will be
lucky Ream saws this himself, and as an
Illustration tells his experience as a Cap
tain Of Pennsylvania regiment in the
bOmbarding around Charleston. The
work of his regiment had been so severe
that in his company there were left only
thirteen men, and they were ensconced
behind willow earthworks filled in with
sand. The shells that were directed to-
ward them had fallen short of them for
day, and, while they could see the mis-
siles sailing toward them, they appre-
hended no peril. Ream says that crowd
ing behind the defcnces having gotten
irksome he left his thirteen men for a mo-
ment and went out in front to stretch
himself He was standing few rods in
front, springing his saber into the soil, so
that by letting 90 the hiltit bounded into
the air and turned a summersault before
it came back into hishand again. While
Ream was amusing himself in front a
black object shot before his eyes; there
was terrific explosion behind the works,
and shrieks and groans from the men. A
shell had fallen behind the willow works,
and of the thirteen men whom Ream had
left for a moment not man was left
without some terrible gaping wound. Not
a man escaped. Ream was left without
a company. But il Wall street ever be-
lieved that it could beat man with luck
like that, it Is beside itself with vanity
Chicag0 Nal.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12
PITH AND POINT.

The crab is very grasping creature.
APopular Military Order Break ranks.
-SytiHgs.
A stop vatch-a sleeping policeman
PHILADELPHIA Herald.
A mans funny-bone, we presume, en-
ables him TO ''laugh in his sleeye.n-
ToHker's Statesman.
The merest schoolboy could dispute
the saying that ''history repeats ITSELF
-Journai Of Education.
A mustard plaster is very sympathetic;
when it can't do anything else for YOU it
draws your attention Goodalps Sun.
" You and Jones don't seem to be as
thick as you we're. Does he owe you
any money ~ mo. He wants to-
Torn Tail.
In the matter of speed there is a great
similarity between a flash Of lightning
and a bit of unfounded gossip.-St.
Al6ans Magazine
''Mother, she said with a heart that beat
Loud as her tones of woe,
ITO YOU the secret I'll repeat,
This cold world cannot know
Lay thy hand on my troubling brow
Nay shrink not from the theme
Oscar has come for two weeks now,
And never said ice cream
-Teras Sinihgs
Brevity produces some very remarkable
specimens of what the philosophers call
nominalism. One of our correspondents
had occasion to go into a store to inquire
for Dr. Abercromble's works, The In
tellectual Faculties and 1.-THE Philoso-
ply of the Moral Feelings" When he
asked for them the bookseller solemnly
replied; Il know I haven't any moral
feelings, and doubt whether have any
intellectual faculties. - Christian Adr0-
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A system of weather observations on
small scale has been established in
Brazil, records from fifteen stations now
being regularly communicated to the
observatory of Rio Janeiro.
Two astronomers of the Grand Ducal
observatory, Carlsruhe, have made the
remarkable observation that the disc of
the planet Uranus appears distinctly
elliptical instead Of perfectly circular.
According to Engineering, of. London,
NJ. G. A. Cassagnee, Of Paris. has in
vented a system of stenotelegmphy by
which he can transmit despatch in
shorthand along a single wire and print
it at n distant station in stenotelegraph
characters with rapidity exceeding that
of any telegraphie apparatus
NJ. Gavol has ascertained that the
absorption of atmosphere oxygen by coal
dust usually produces the rise in the
temperature to which spontaneous COM
bustion is due. Ignite is ignited at the
low temperature of 5000, anthracite at
5750. and other varieties Of coal in a
powdered state, at intermediate tempera-
lures
NJ. Stanislaus Meunier of Paris has been
for many years busy with the reproduction
of artificial minerals. His latest work is
in the formation of the red balas ruby,
and he has succeeded in the attempt. By
taking well-crystallized illuminate OF
magncsia and coloreda rose tint BY traces
of chromium a stone is produced the
exact counterpart of the natural product
An interesting series of experiments
has been made by DIR. J. W. Fraser on
the influence of our common beverages
on digestion. Among these drinks he |
tinSs that wafer is usually the best. OF |
infdsions, tea or cocoa acts most favorably |
when bread is eaten, and coffee is the |
best for use with meats or eggs. Eggs !
are the best animal food with infused
beverages, and should be soft-boiled |
when tea is the beverage, and hard-boiLed
with coffee or cocoa,
1t is generally supposed that pneu-
monia is due to the accidental penetra-
ton of specific microbes into the system,
but the observations of VI. Jaccoud, a
French student of the subject, show that |
thedisease really results from the de- /
yeiopment under favorable conditions of
germs permanently present in
The system. Il chief condition of such
Development is a sudden chill, which
explains the frequent coincidence of lung
affections with abrupt changes of tenn
perature.
A communication to the London Mete-
biological society, by Capt. Toynbee,
states as his conclusion that clouds of not
ess than 1000 feet in thickness are sell
iom accompanied by rain, or, if they are,
it is very gentle, consisting of minute
iTops; with thickness of between
;, 900 and 4, 900 feet, the size of the drops
S moderate; with increasing thickness of
he clouds comes an increasing size Of the
irops, and at the same time the degree of
becomes lowered. When the
thickness amounts TO more than 5000
'eet hail is produced.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-08-12
Boats of the CeyIon Natives

The natives of Ceylon have queer boats.
They are quite long, and so narrow, says
a correspondent, that | could not keep in
one of them without putting one leg in
front of the other. The whole affair
stands well up out of the water and is
kept from capsizing by long balance
log about six feet out from the boat and
secured TO it by two lightly curved spars.
All that saw had small square rags for
sails, which could only be set with a free
wind. When the wind gets strong one
or more of the crew are sent out to squat
on the balance log, the number found
necessary for this purpose denoting the
strength Of the wind-thus they speak
Of one man gale two man gale and so
on. They are said to be excellent sea
boats and to make good speed, but no
one accuses them Of being comfortable,